Welcome to Closed Beta T4 v7
Please be aware that any and all of what you are testing may change between now and final release.
Character Name error
During the last release the character surnames were not saving correctly. When you check the customise options you will see that your surname is now a forename and you have a blank surname. I do not want to break your saves again, so I left it as is. If you manually change your names they will now save correctly.
GOAL
There have been MANY features added in the last week. It is time to ease down on features, focus on stability, bugs, rebalance and polish. Please report anything you find.
STRETCH GOAL
As previous, Settlement 4 works. I am now working its way through Era 6 data and Era 3 + 4 item & building artwork. So I suggest you do not push past Era 3 if you want the game to still look nice :)
UPDATES
Features
· Added Gameplay Tips to the load screen.
· Character Customisation Part 2
When you open the name change panel you will now see a lot more customisation options. You can change face and hair styles freely. At some point you can import your own face but this is not implemented as yet. You can also purchase advanced training for your characters stats if you have the coins. (Customising characters pauses the game!)
· Family Buff
Now any character that has the same surname as another, will gain the 'Family Buff' bonus. Before you rush off and change all of your character names - This is a two edged sword. You will fight harder when in combat with family but when things start to go wrong, they go very wrong with family members dropping defence for offence and increasing threat.
· Diplomacy Spending
This feature is now in. You can click on the icon to the right of your diplomacy points to bring up your spend options.
Changes
· Rebalance: Decreased the amount of copper ingots for a wooden crate from 5 to 2.
· Rebalance : Increased Worldskill research XP from 3-5 to 4-6
· The Doomclock will now chime when it moves.
Bugs
· Fixed an issue whereby the ability to craft machinery items was disabled!
· Fixed a bug whereby if you triggered a carry event at the same moment combat launched, the game would crash.
New Content: Artwork
New Content: Core Data
New Content: Skills & Books
New Content: Monster Data
New Content: Info and Tutorial
New Content: Sounds
Doomclock movement
Leave Him/Her Alone for combat family buff - missing female sound bite for now.
New Content: Achievements
MISSING CONTENT
Core Data
Building data of Era 6 is not finished.
Item & Recipe data of Era 6 is not finished.
The Main plot and associated Quests are not in.
Only the first 30 skills have Help information.
Functionality
Investigation Quests are not complete.
Destruction of Buildings in failed Settlement defence.
Many Tutorial and feature feedback screens.
Skill-book interface is due to change.
Settlement 5+ is available if you find them, however no special combat encounter has been input as yet.
Features
Import Face!
DoomsDay Clock Special Boss Encounters: And their Unique drops.
Artwork
Building Graphics are missing once you start to progress into Late Bronze. They will work but without graphics.
Item Graphics are missing once you start to progress into Late Bronze and may also manifest itself as Merchants in Early Bronze offer you some Late Bronze Items. If the Graphic is missing it will be replaced by a Blue Circle saying No Recipe. (Yes I know there is a Typo saying Recepie - lol. That will be removed in time).
Merchant Pictures are missing - These will be awaiting KickStarter progress.
Monster Pictures - Some are missing.
Combat Blood effects are placeholders.
Only Stage 1 Walls have artwork.
Combat
Settlement Defender upgrades are shown as a picture in the bottom left. They work but will be replaced by actual defenders upon your walls (if you have any)
KNOWN BUGS
Accessibility font issue on Settings menu.
Quests are not always being placed based upon location of Scout's home.
Hut: Baskets have incorrect Shadows.
Healing Herbs: Incorrect artwork.
Possible small memory leak - under investigation - not to be confused with memory creep, as the game will grow in memory as the player progresses.
Dupe bug that allows a copy of a character within a settlement - I am currently unable to replicate.
ACHIEVEMENTS
A few Achievements are not working as yet.
Those that do will be frequently wiped as testing progresses.
Plan to add a Salesman Achievement for trading with merchants